Course Details
English Language Tutorial for PhD Students
Academic Year 2022/23
DYA004 course is part of 24 study plans
DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-E Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-E Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-E Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-E Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-S Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-S Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-S Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-S Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-M Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-M Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-M Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-M Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year
DKC-GK Winter Semester 1st year
DPA-GK Winter Semester 1st year
DKA-GK Winter Semester 1st year
The subject comprises six tutorials. Students read English scientific literature connected with their research. It can be a book, its part or a set of papers. The text should be 120-150 pages long. Students chose texts whose topic is useful for their research. The tutor approves of the texts. Students hand in 10-20 key terms with their translation and its source. Student also hand in a written summary of the text(s). It should be approx. one page long.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Mastering the vocabulary of the field and the basic regularities of technical translation.
Knowledge
Knowledge of a certain amount of the technical vocabulary of the respective field and the grammatical features characteristic of the professional language style.
Prerequisites
Students must have a command of general English higher than the level of CEFR, and they must have completed the DY02 course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
1 credit
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. The tutor approves of the text(s) chosen by the student for reading and recommends useful dictionaries containing civil engineering English.
2. Consulting language problems.
3. Consulting language problems.
4. Consulting language problems.
5. Consulting language problems.
6. Consulting the key terms list and the written summary of the reading.